Are Clovis people the first Americans?

The Clovis people, known for their distinctive spearheads, were not the first humans to set foot in the Americas after all.

Who were the first Native Americans?

In Brief. For decades archaeologists thought the first Americans were the Clovis people, who were said to have reached the New World some 13,000 years ago from northern Asia.

Why did the first Americans migrate from Asia to the Americas?

Drought, flood, and temperature changes could certainly push people to move on. Climate change also affects the food supply, and anthropologists have assumed that people came to the Americas because they were following food on the hoof.

What is Clovis First theory?

The Clovis First hypothesis states that no humans existed in the Americas prior to Clovis, which dates from 13,000 years ago, and that the distinct Clovis lithic technology is the mother technology of all other stone artifact types later occurring in the New World.

Were the first Americans Clovis people?

Although a lot of questions linger over the study, it served as a timely reminder that the idea that the first Americans were the 13,500-year-old Clovis people needed rethinking. Now, writing in Science, an international team of anthropologists have essentially declared that the consensus has officially shifted.

What did the Clovis people do?

After the discovery of several Clovis sites in eastern North America in the 1930s, the Clovis people came to be regarded as the first human inhabitants who created a widespread culture in the Americas, and the ancestors of most of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

What is the oldest Clovis site in North America?

The oldest Clovis site in North America is believed to be El Fin del Mundo in northwestern Sonora, Mexico, discovered during a 2007 survey. It features occupation dating around 13,390 calibrated years BP. In 2011, remains of gomphotheres were found; the evidence suggests that humans did, in fact, kill two of them there.

Who were the first people in North America?

In the 1970s, college students in archaeology such as myself learned that the first human beings to arrive in North America had come over a land bridge from Asia and Siberia approximately 13,000 to 13,500 years ago. These people, the first North Americans, were known collectively as Clovis people.